Introduction
Recently I completed my half yearly task of rebuilding my MECM lab. I do rely on evaluation licenses for most of my Microsoft products, and so it does make sense to rebuild on a regular basis for this reason. In addition, building a MECM lab is always a great knowledge refresher. I did enable MECM Cloud Attach, which of course meant I did have an instance of my old friend, Intune. Now recently I have been working in air gapped environments - and this means no hands on Intune fun for a while. I thought I would take the opportunity of refreshing my knowledge about this great product. I did follow Jonathan Edwards great video on how to enable and manage Android enrolments into Intune.
How to Manage Android Devices in Microsoft 365 Using Intune
Having only recently purchased for myself a Lenovo tablet with Android v15 installed - I did ensure this device became enrolled into my Intune instance. Doing some experimentation (playing) I found two features so interesting I really did have to write about them. Firstly let's look at the Custom Notifications feature.
Custom Notifications
So you would like to send an urgent message out to all your staff members, using their phones or tablets? Perhaps warning of a security event or a reminder to fill in timesheets! Intune has the Custom Notifications feature precisely for this sort of requirement. Firstly, you will need to ensure a few settings are applied to your tablets or phones. In my case I had to enable Notification permissions for both Intune and the Company Portal Apps.
Secondly, I needed to enable Notifications history.
The next step is to create a group in Intune. Add into this group the users or their devices or both (I had more success when adding both user and the device). In this case I created a group called Global Communications.
Next, Navigate to Tenant Administration\Custom Notifications. Enter in your message and click on Next.
Click on Add Group and then place and tick next to your chosen group and then click on Select.
Click on Next and then Create.
After a few minutes your device will emit an attention chime and you can view the message on the lock screen.
Play Lost Device Sound
Another fun feature is the ability to send a jingle from the Intune portal to the remote Android device. A build engineer with dozens of identical tablets on his desk may find this very useful. Can't find the tablet showing an issue in the portal? Just send it the Play Lost Device Sound command and it will light up playing the jingle. Likewise if a user knows the Android is near at hand but cannot find it - then this command may assist with tracking the device down.
In the Intune portal locate the device under the devices node. Click on Play Lost Device Sound.
When prompted select the number of minutes you would like the jingle to play.
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